Sorry for going off topic a bit but...
Two days after apple announced the death of the cube I bought one for my
wife (she had been eyeing them for some time). She got the 500 MHz with 1.25
GB ram, 60 GB hard drive and 17 inch LCD monitor. She decided to go with
CD-RW instead of DVD. What a sweet machine. It speeds through graphics and
really makes Mac OS X shine. I guess we're one of those who should have
bought it early on in order to prevent its death. I personally don't see any
fault lines in the plastic housing or dead pixels in the screen. It was
really a better fit for her desk than the G4 tower would have been. A lot of
our friends drool when they see it (compared to their beige dell boxes).
Maybe it will return some day. Like the Newton, I think people will look
back and realize what a technological marvel it really was. (I heard one is
going on board the space station or similar).
Chet
On 10/3/01 6:06 PM, "Andre Baron" <abaron_at_mac.com> wrote:
>
> Exactly... I sell Macintosh computers, and the cube was a hard sell.
> Initially it was over priced, why buy that, when they could by a g4 tower
> for less, and have pretty much the same functionality, more in some ways.
> This is probably what killed it. People still didn't want it when the price
> was dropped below the tower, probably when they figured it was going to die.
> The biggest demand for the cube has come since it has been disco'd. I
> sometimes get annoyed with people who call up, surprised that it's gone, and
> wonder why. I'll tell 'em "You should have bought one when they were
> available, they might not have been disco'd then!"
>
> My parents have a cube however, and it is a wonderful machine! To bad. Jus
> a note mold lines, PAH! they don't detract from the Cube, my parents has
> 'em, big deal, it hasn't fallen apart yet, you only notice them when looking
> at it in the right light, at the right angle.
>
> Andre
>
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